Quizzes > India Quiz Questions
Quiz I
- Can you name the highest peak in India?
- What was founded in the 15th Century by Guru Nanak in the Punjab?
- Known for its artistic Hindu style elements, which high hill fort is the principal tourist attraction of the Jaipur region?
- India shares its longest land border with which country?
- Which state in northern India is often denoted by the acronym 'J and K'?
- In Indian culture, what is a bindi?
- Which city has the highest number of billionaires and millionaires among all cities in India?
- Which animal in hinduism is regarded as a symbol of ahimsa (non-violence), mother goddess and bringer of wealth and good fortune?
- Completed in 1998, what is the Golden Quadilateral?
- Outside India, Hindi is an official language in which South Pacific Ocean country?
- Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated in which city?
- Shah Rukh Khan is often referred to in the media as the 'king of' where?
- What was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore in 1913?
- Which sea is bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, and on the east by India?
- By what name is the 'festival of lights' known by?
- Which state in Northeast India, bordered by Bhutan, is world famous for its tea and silk?
- Which plain-woven textile made from unbleached and often not fully processed cotton is named after a city in southwestern India?
- Name the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India?
- Which type of bird is Pavo cristatus, the national bird of India?
- Where would you mostly visibly see the Ashoka Chakra?
Answers:
- Kanchenjunga
- Sikhism
- Amer Fort (or Amber Fort)
- Bangladesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- A red dot worn on the center of the forehead (commonly worn by Hindu and Jain women)
- Mumbai
- The cow
- A superhighway linking India's main four cities
- Fiji
- New Delhi
- King of Bollywood
- Nobel Prize in Literature (the first non-European to win the prize)
- The Arabian Sea
- Diwali
- Assam
- Calico
- Bengali (Hindi is the first, and Telugu ranks third)
- Indian peacock
- On the Indian Flag (it's the navy blue 24-spoke wheel at the centre of the Flag of India)